Government funding will run out on September 30 absent Congressional action. Congress will likely pass a continuing resolution (CR) to maintain spending at current levels until after the election.

  • The House passed three of its twelve FY 2027 funding bills and plans to vote on its version of a CR later today before leaving town for recess on Thursday. (None of the Trump Administration’s requested anomalies are included.)
    • What are Anomalies? They are specific exceptions or exemptions to the flat funding of a continuing resolution usually noted to prevent disruptions to key services.
  • Senate Majority Leader Thune (R-SD) plans to put a short-term stopgap funding bill on the floor before the Senate leaves for August recess on August 7, and its version is likely to include some anomalies. The Senate has yet to release its CR language or any text for its FY 2027 funding bills.

What They’re Saying: Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), Chair of the House Appropriations Committee, urged members of Congress to pass the clean CR well in advance of the deadline:

“The House has spent months doing the work the American people sent us here to do – holding hearings, advancing every appropriations bill through committee, and moving full-year funding measures on the floor…The September deadline isn’t changing, but how Congress plans for it can. This bill takes partisan politics and posturing off the table, denying anyone the opportunity to manufacture leverage from the calendar before elections.”

Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee was critical of the House’s CR, noting it was unlikely to pass in the Senate:

“I understand there’s some real flaws with it. I am happy to look at a bipartisan CR, but I understand there’s some real problems on the House side.”